Custom blog and pagination feature

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I want to build a custom blog for my site…I do not want to use wordpress or any tother CMS for that matter.
Just some code to post articles…and inserting them to the database.

The only issue is pagination…

I am searching for code(package for example) that will be able to “mess” with my existing custom code and provide pagination functionality.

By describing the problem ago what do you think is best way to go…provided of courseI what I want to do,that is custom code for blog with a pagination ready code “sounds good”.

What do you think?
I just do not want to use an existing CMS cause of security reasons and plus the fact that much of the code is it(which supports many features) is no use to me.

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just make your own pagination. it’s super simple. many tutorials online.

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I agree…thanks

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I’ve reused the below pagination logic on many projects.

<?php
if($total_pages <= $visible_pages) {
    $page_start = 1;
    $page_end = $total_pages;
} else if($page <= ceil($visible_pages/2)) {
    $page_start = 1;
    $page_end = $visible_pages;
} else if($page > ($total_pages - ceil($visible_pages/2))) {
    $page_start = $total_pages - (ceil(($visible_pages/2)*2)-1);
    $page_end = $total_pages;
} else {
    $page_start = $page-(floor($visible_pages/2));
    $page_end = $page+(floor($visible_pages/2));
}
echo '<div class="pagination">';
/*printf(
    '<div class="summary"><p class="pages">%u %s</p><p class="total">%u %s</p></div>'
    ,$total_pages
    ,$total_pages == 1?'Page':'Pages'
    ,$found_rows
    ,$found_rows == 1?$label:$label
);*/
printf('<ul>');
/*printf(
    '<li class="first prev">%s%s%s</li>'
    ,$page == 1?'':sprintf('<a href="%s/%u/%s">',$base_path,1,$query_string)
    ,'First'
    ,$page == 1?'':'</a>'
);*/   
printf(
    '<li class="prev%s">%s%s%s</li>'
    ,$page == 1?' disabled':''
    ,$page == 1?'<a href="#">':sprintf('<a href="%s/%u/%s">',$base_path,($page-1),$query_string)
    ,'Previous'
    ,$page == 1?'</a>':'</a>'
);
foreach(range($page_start,$page_end,1) as $i) {
    /*if($i == $intPageStart) printf('<ol class="pages">');*/
    printf(
        '<li%s>%s%s%s</li>'
        ,$page == $i?' class="active"':''
        ,$page == $i?'<a href="#">':sprintf('<a href="%s/%u/%s">',$base_path,$i,$query_string)
        ,$i
        ,$page == $i?'</a>':'</a>'
    );
    /*if($i == $intPageEnd) printf('</ol>');*/
}
printf(
	'<li class="next%s">%s%s%s</li>'
        ,$page == $total_pages?' disabled':''
	,$page == $total_pages?'<a href="#">':sprintf('<a href="%s/%u/%s">',$base_path,($page+1),$query_string)
    ,'Next'
    ,$page == $total_pages?'</a>':'</a>'
);
/*printf(
    '<li class="last next">%s%s%s</li>'
    ,$page == $total_pages?'':sprintf('<a href="%s/%u/%s">',$base_path,$total_pages,$query_string)
    ,'Last'
    ,$page == $total_pages?'':'</a>'
);*/
printf('</ul>');
echo '</div>';
?>

Here is the original module that loads the template with variables.

<?php 
class MCPUtilPagination extends MCPModule {
	
	public function __construct(MCP $objMCP,MCPModule $objParentModule,$arrConfig=null) {
		parent::__construct($objMCP,$objParentModule,$arrConfig);
	}
	
	public function execute($arrArgs) {
		
		/*
		* Extract number of items to show per page
		*/
		$intLimit = !empty($arrArgs) && is_numeric($arrArgs[0])?array_shift($arrArgs):10;
		
		/*
		* Extract the current page number
		*/
		$intPage = !empty($arrArgs) && is_numeric($arrArgs[0])?array_shift($arrArgs):1;
		
		/*
		* Calculate page offset 
		*/
		$intOffset = ($intPage-1)*$intLimit;
		
		/*
		* Paginate and get number of found rows 
		*/
		$intFoundRows = $this->_objParentModule->paginate($intOffset,$intLimit);
		
		/*
		* Assign template data 
		*/
		$this->_arrTemplateData['limit'] = $intLimit;
		$this->_arrTemplateData['page'] = $intPage;
		$this->_arrTemplateData['offset'] = $intOffset;
		$this->_arrTemplateData['found_rows'] = $intFoundRows;
		$this->_arrTemplateData['total_pages'] = $intFoundRows < $intLimit?1:ceil($intFoundRows/$intLimit);
		$this->_arrTemplateData['visible_pages'] = $this->getConfigValue('visible_pages');
		$this->_arrTemplateData['base_path'] = $this->_objParentModule->getBasePath(false);
		$this->_arrTemplateData['label'] = $intFoundRows == 1?$this->getConfigValue('items_label_singular'):$this->getConfigValue('items_label_plural');
		$this->_arrTemplateData['query_string'] = $this->_objMCP->getQueryString();
		
		/*
		* Return the pagination template 
		*/
		return 'Pagination/Pagination.php';
		
	}
	
}
?>

Just implement into your own system by replacing the variables the template requires. The class is just for reference. The total rows can be found using CALC_FOUND_ROWS in MySQL so only a single query is required. Its from a really old project but I’ve had a lot of success with variations of that algorithm on many different projects.

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